The American

Our hero is an assassin, so there’s no telling what he did to upset those pesky Swedes, a tenacious, hardy breed.

Jack (George Clooney, “Up in the Air”) is on the run. Things didn’t go well up north, and three bodies bloodying up the snow means it’s time to lay low. Jack’s handler, Pavel (Johan Leysen, “Brotherhood of the Wolf”), meets him in Rome and offers up a safe house in a small Italian village.

Pavel also reminds Jack that his job is not to make any friends. Seeing as how his last friend “ the lithe and briefly bare-assed Ingrid (Swedish actress Irina Bj